The official opening ceremony of the International Food Processing & Packaging Fair took place on October 8, 2026 at the Abidjan Exhibition Park, promoted by the Ivorian association APECI.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ibrahim Kalil Konat\u00e9, representatives of the Ministries of Agriculture and of Animal and Fishery Resources, the FAO, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, and the Ambassadors of Germany, Italy and T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n
Italy took part with an official Pavilion set up by ITA \u2013 Italian Trade Agency, in collaboration with UCIMA (Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association), bringing together more than twenty Italian companies active in the packaging and processing technologies sector.<\/p>\n
In his remarks, Minister Konat\u00e9 highlighted the strategic importance of the packaging sector, given its transversal nature and central role in the agri\u2011food and manufacturing value chains.<\/p>\n
The Ambassador of Italy, H. E. Roberta Di Lecce, underlined the importance of the sector for the Italian industrial system: Italy is currently the second\u2011largest global producer of packaging and processing machinery, with a 2025 turnover of nearly \u20ac10.5 billion, of which around 80% destined for export.<\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s presence in Abidjan confirms its commitment to being a stable, long\u2011term partner for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s industrial development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official opening ceremony of the International Food Processing & Packaging Fair took place on October 8, 2026 at the Abidjan Exhibition Park, promoted by the Ivorian association APECI. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ibrahim Kalil Konat\u00e9, representatives of the Ministries of Agriculture and of […]","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,3],"class_list":["post-208057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-africa","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208062,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208057\/revisions\/208062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}